How to export or save files from Blackbaud Hosting Services to your computer or a network location

How do I export a file to my local machine?How can I save a file to my workstation?

You may access your local or network file locations when working in an application hosted by Blackbaud Hosting Services. For example, you can save a file from your application to your desktop, or another folder located on your computer. This article describes how to access and use local or network drives from a hosted application when you are exporting or saving a file. As a note, permanent files such as Crystal Reports and files for scheduled queues must be saved in the hosted Files Folder.

Complete process or report, When exporting from the Reports module, select leave the Destination field as "Disk file." Then click Export

Change the save location by clicking on the ellipsis button next to the file name field. This will open the navigation window.

Select the 'Save in' drop-down menu at the top of the file navigation window and select the Local Disk option that has the letter of the drive that you wish to save the file on. You may see one of the two following explorer windows:

Browse to the location on your computer where you want to save your file.

We recommend storing files in a folder that is in an easily accessible location (i.e.C:\Users\[Windows username]\Desktop\)

Due to common file restrictions on the root directory of a windows computer (C:\), we suggest not saving to C:\ and saving your file within a folder.